出自:信阳师范大学美国文学史

Stylistically, Henry James ’ fiction is characterized by. __
A.short, clear sentences
B.abundance of local images
C.ordinary American speech
D.highly refined language
The short story “aRnip W Vinkle ” reveals the ____ attitude of its author.
A.optimistic
B.pessimistic
C.conservative
D.ironic
Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?
A.Rationalism
B.inner self
C.personal feelings
D.individualism
The short story “ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ” is taken from Irving ’ s work named ______.
A.The Leatherstocking Tales
B.The Sketch Book
C.The Autobiography
D.The History of New Y ork
In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment.______ was the dominant.
A.humanism
B.rationalism
C.romanticism
D.evolution
Which one is NOT the characteristic of modernism?
A.Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, anti-realism, individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects.
B.Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars.
C.The work of Marx, and Freud, had mounted an assault against orthodox religious faith that lasted into the twentieth century.
D.Modernists believe that human nature is kind.
Which of the following works is NOT by Ernest Hemingway?
A.The Old Man and Sea
B.A Farewell to Arms
C.Sound and Fury
D.For Whom the Bell Tolls
The realistic period is referred to as“ the Gilded Age” by _______.
A.Mark Twain
B.Henry James
C.Emily Dickinson
D.Theodore Dreiser
Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true?
A.After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeing close friends.
B.She once felt a deep affection for Charles Wadsworth, a married aged minister, but it proved to be a frustrated love affair for Dickinson.
C.She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure.
D.During her lifetime, all her poems are published.
_________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.
A. Washington Irving
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Walt Whitman
D. Edgar Allan Poe
In the first section of Autobiography the writer addressed to ________
A.his son
B.his friends
C.his wife
D.himself
Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ______.
A.American Enlightenment
B.Sugar Act
C.Chartist movement
D.Romanticist
Of all the books written by Michael Wigglesworth the beat known is______
A.The Flesh and the Spirit
B.The True Travels
C.The Day of Doom
D.Christopher Columbus
New-England ’s Plantation was published in 1630 by ________
A.Francis Higginson
B.William Bradford
C.John Smith
D.Michael Wigglesworth
The Colonial Period of American literature stretched roughly from the settlement of America in the early 17th century through the end of_______ century.
A.the 18 th
B.the 19 th
C.the 20th
D.21th
Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas ________wrote about the Jazz age, life in American society.
A.William Carlos Williams
B. William Faulkner
C. John Steinbeck
D. F.Scott Fitzgerald
He was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans. Who is he?
A. Richard Wright
B. Harriet Beecher Stowe
C. Langston Hughes
D.Ralph Ellison
________ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.
A. John Steinbeck
B. William Faulkner
C. Eugene O’Neill
D. Arthur Miller
_________ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Robert Frost
C. H.d
D. Emily Dickinson
________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are major characters.
A. Sinclair Lewis
B. Saul Bellow
C. Norman Mailer
D. Jerome David Salinger
He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Y oknapatwapha County in the deep south. He is ______.
A. William Faulkner
B. John Steinbeck
C. Ernest Hemingway
D.Mark Twain
His writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts. He is______.
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. William Faulkner
C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
D.Mark Twain
Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?
A. William Dean Howells
B. Mark Twain
C. Ernest Hemingway
D.Theodore Dreiser
William Dean Howells is concerned with the middle class life; ______ writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.
A. Stephen Crane
B. Frank Norris
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. Henry James
The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.
A.A Farewell to Arms
B.The Sun Also Rises
C.The Old Man and the Sea
D. The Naked and the Dead
______was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.
A. Pearl S. Buck
B.Harriet Bicher Stowe
C. Emily Dickenson
D.Walter Whitman
_______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Washington Irving
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
D. Henry David Thoreau
_________ was the first American writer to write entirely American literature.
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Washington Irving
C. Mark Twain
D. Ernest Hemingway
_________ is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays.
A. Tennessee Williams
B. Eugene O’Neill
C. Arthur Miller
D. Elmer Rice
An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____________.
A. The Pilgrims
B. Mayflower
C. America
D. Titanic
It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introduction mainly concerned with the four uses of nature.
A. Walden
B. Nature
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. The American Scholar
The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.
A.The Octopus
B. Moby-Dick
C. The Rise of Silas Lapham
D.Leaves of Grass
The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in value of all people and all things.
A.Cantos
B. The Raven
C. Song of Myself
D.Chicago
The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming) ’s reactions in the Civil War.
A.An American Tragedy
B. Sister Carrie
C.The Red Badge of Courage
D. McTeague
The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in the local dialect. It is a representative work of local colorism.
A. Sister Carrie
B.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D.The Portrait of a Lady
It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally commits suicide.
A.An American Tragedy
B. Sister Carrie
C. McTeague
D.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is taken from Shakespeare ’s Macbeth.
A. Absolom, Absolom!
B. The Sound and the Fury
C.A Farewell to Arms
D. The Great Gatsby
It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel , 1919, and The Big Money , with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.
A.Babbitt
B. Light in August
C. U.S. A
D. The Grapes of Wrath
The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in Californi
A.The Grapes of Wrath
B. U.S.A
C.Babbitt
D. The Adventures of Augie March
During 1807-1808, Washington Irving wrote for his brother ’s newspaper called ________
A.New York Times
B.Washington Post
C.Salmagundi
D.Daily News
History of New York was published in 1807 under the name of ________
A.Washington Irving
B.Diedrich Knickerboker
C.James Fenimore Cooper
D.John Whittier
Rip Van Winkle was written by ________
A.James Fenimore Cooper
B.Benjamin Franklin
C.Washington Irving
D.Walt Whitman
The Spy was written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1821. It is a novel about________
A.American Civil War
B.American Revolution
C.American West Expansion
D.The First World War
Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper ’s ________
A.The Precaution
B.The Spy
C.The Gleanings in Europe
D.Leatherstocking Tales
________ was regarded as a poet of the American Revolution
A.Philip Freneau
B.Walt Whitman
C.Robert Frost
D.Cal Sandburg
The Raven was written in 1844 by ________
A.Philip Freneau
B.Edgar Allan Poe
C.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D.Emily Dickinson
The Minister ’s Black Veil was written by ________
A.Edgar Allan Poe
B.Nathaniel Hawthorne
C.Henry David Thoreau
D.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the ______ who appeared in America.
A.Ninth Muse
B.Tenth Muse
C.Best Muse
D.First Muse
A new _____ had appeared in England in the last years of the 18 th century.It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the 19th century.
A.Realism
B.Critical realism
C.Romanticism
D.Naturalism
Washington Irving got his idea for his most famous story, Rip Van Winkle ,from a ________
A.Greek legend
B.German legend
C.French legend
D.English legend
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